But is it really? My brother’s burial is being held up because I can’t find his social security number. It’s not in his papers — he used an ID number that wasn’t his social security number. His ex-wife has no record of it. Social security themselves want the number before they can give me the number…:-)
When you write, do you think “everyone knows” what you are referring to? Are you leaving your readers perplexed and frustrated? Be sure that you are laying out the facts — or the fiction — in such a way that a completely uninformed person can pick up the narrative and make sense of it.
